Dianne
Floyd Sutton is President of Sutton Enterprises, author,
trainer, educator, facilitator, expert witness, coach and
actor. She has twenty-five years of combined experience
in Human Resource Development (HRD) and Equal Employment
Opportunity (EEO) training. And she has twenty years of
business experience as Sutton Enterprises. She has the skills
to create a safe learning environment where diverse participants
are able to ask questions, experiment with new behaviors
and make mistakes. She also has the ability to present models
and techniques in a straight forward and clear manner so
that they are easier to remember and utilize. Before founding
Sutton Enterprises in 1987, she held a variety of positions
at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in training
and employee development.
In compliment to her HRD and EEO work, Dianne has served
in a number of jobs in which she made her passion for advancing
workplace ethics and employee protection into a viable business.
Dianne was an adjunct professor at American University
School of Communication for twelve years. She has been recognized
as an outstanding faculty member of the Graduate School,
USDA, Center for Leadership and Management and has served
as a guest lecturer at Montgomery College, University of
the District of Columbia, George Washington University and
Florida A & M. She is on the Executive Board of the
Washington, D.C. based Training Officers Consortium (TOC)
and serves as TOC historian. Dianne served two years
on the Policy Board of the National Rural Health Association
(Kansas City, Missouri) where she actively worked to eliminate
health disparities within special rural health populations.
Self Employed Magazine published by the National Association
for the Self Employed featured Dianne in 2001 in the
article “When Saying No Can Lead to Success.”
She was twice elected (2002 and 2004) as an Advisory Neighborhood
Commission (ANC) Commissioner of a single member district
in the District of Columbia, representing over 2,000 residents.
Her most recent publication is Workplace Etiquette: A Guide
to Thriving and Surviving in Today’s Workplace.
Dianne started her career as a recreation leader for the
city of St. Louis, Missouri while earning her undergraduate
degree. She was a mathematics instructor in the St. Louis,
Missouri Public School System while attending graduate school
at Washington University.
Her most recent publication is Workplace Etiquette:
A Guide to Thriving and Surviving in Today’s Workplace.